plague spotn.

Brit.

/ˈpleɪɡ spɒt/, U.S.

/ˈpleɪɡ ˌspɑt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: plague n., spot n.¹

Etymology: < plague n. + spot n.¹ Compare earlier plague sore n.

a. A spot on the skin symptomatic of the bubonic plague or of another plague-like illness. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer > of plague

buboc1425

plague sore1580

God's token1582

plague spot1620

token1634

plague marka1691

1620 T. Gataker Davids Instructer 16 We are wont to say of those that haue Plague-spots, that they haue Gods tokens vpon them, and such are seldome knowne to scape or recouer.

1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue i. ii. 17 We do not say a man is an ill man, because he has the Plague-spots upon him.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 181 It seem'd a peculiar blessing on our air and climate, that there was a plague-spot visibly imprinted on all that are tainted with it.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 37 It is..unjust to fix the attention on a few separate..poems with as much aversion as if they had been so many plague-spots on the whole work.

1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia xvii. 147 The plague-spot of sin and imperfection.

1877 A. C. Swinburne Note C. Brontë 37 It is a radical and mortal plague-spot, corrosive and incurable.

1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 795/2 The Doctor has hit the plague-spot of modern Christianity.

1979 Country Life 11 Oct. 1182/3 St. Roch..is almost invariably depicted as a pilgrim pointing to a plague spot on his leg.

2003 Independent (Nexis) 10 Sept. 4 The dreadful yellow eating houses that disfigure the world like plague spots are also called MacDonald's.

b. spec. figurative. An evil or undesirable person regarded as a symptom of the diseases of society.

ΚΠ

1842 Austral. & N.Z. Monthly Mag. 39 There is no class of individuals more useful to society than respectable innkeepers, but the class of low grog-sellers which abound throughout these colonies, are the plague spots of society.

1905 A. Conan Doyle Return Sherlock Holmes 170 His arrest of Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer,..removed a plague-spot from the East End of London.

1996 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 7 June Leeson is a plague spot. He is an agent of destruction. He is like a computer virus that gets into the workings of something that does work and perverts it utterly.

2. A place associated with bubonic plague. Also occasionally figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] > place infected with

plague house1665

plague spot1861

1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) 22 [This] will enable the finger to be laid at once on the plague spots of the parish.

1864 Daily Tel. 8 Aug. To see..every lupanar that has been a plague-spot here.

1912 Dict. National Biogr. at Baroness Burdett-Coutts On the site of Nova Scotia Gardens in Bethnal Green, a plague spot and den of crime, she erected before the close of 1862 four blocks of model tenements.

1969 Year Bk. 1968 194/1 The epidemic that made Great Britain temporarily the plague-spot of the world began on October 25, 1967.

1991 R. Howard tr. E. M. Cioran Anathemas & Admirations i. 9 He lived in a virtually empty apartment his concierge wanted for her daughter and schemed to evict him from, on the pretext that the place was a plague-spot.

Derivatives

ˈplague-spotted adj. tainted as if covered with plague spots.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iv. i. 94 Her spirit shall approach the Throne of God Plague-spotted with my curses.

1897 E. L. Voynich Gadfly iii. viii. 366 What is the worth of your plague-spotted souls, that such a price should be paid for them?

1907 Evening Telegram (Ohio) 24 June 7/2 He considered Castle Sullivan one of the angriest plague spots in a plague spotted land.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	plague spot
释义	plague spotn. Brit. /ˈpleɪɡ spɒt/, U.S. /ˈpleɪɡ ˌspɑt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: plague n., spot n.¹ Etymology: < plague n. + spot n.¹ Compare earlier plague sore n. 1. a. A spot on the skin symptomatic of the bubonic plague or of another plague-like illness. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer > of plague buboc1425 plague sore1580 God's token1582 plague spot1620 token1634 plague marka1691 1620 T. Gataker Davids Instructer 16 We are wont to say of those that haue Plague-spots, that they haue Gods tokens vpon them, and such are seldome knowne to scape or recouer. 1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue i. ii. 17 We do not say a man is an ill man, because he has the Plague-spots upon him. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 181 It seem'd a peculiar blessing on our air and climate, that there was a plague-spot visibly imprinted on all that are tainted with it. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 37 It is..unjust to fix the attention on a few separate..poems with as much aversion as if they had been so many plague-spots on the whole work. 1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia xvii. 147 The plague-spot of sin and imperfection. 1877 A. C. Swinburne Note C. Brontë 37 It is a radical and mortal plague-spot, corrosive and incurable. 1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 795/2 The Doctor has hit the plague-spot of modern Christianity. 1979 Country Life 11 Oct. 1182/3 St. Roch..is almost invariably depicted as a pilgrim pointing to a plague spot on his leg. 2003 Independent (Nexis) 10 Sept. 4 The dreadful yellow eating houses that disfigure the world like plague spots are also called MacDonald's. b. spec. figurative. An evil or undesirable person regarded as a symptom of the diseases of society. ΚΠ 1842 Austral. & N.Z. Monthly Mag. 39 There is no class of individuals more useful to society than respectable innkeepers, but the class of low grog-sellers which abound throughout these colonies, are the plague spots of society. 1905 A. Conan Doyle Return Sherlock Holmes 170 His arrest of Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer,..removed a plague-spot from the East End of London. 1996 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 7 June Leeson is a plague spot. He is an agent of destruction. He is like a computer virus that gets into the workings of something that does work and perverts it utterly. 2. A place associated with bubonic plague. Also occasionally figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] > place infected with plague house1665 plague spot1861 1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) 22 [This] will enable the finger to be laid at once on the plague spots of the parish. 1864 Daily Tel. 8 Aug. To see..every lupanar that has been a plague-spot here. 1912 Dict. National Biogr. at Baroness Burdett-Coutts On the site of Nova Scotia Gardens in Bethnal Green, a plague spot and den of crime, she erected before the close of 1862 four blocks of model tenements. 1969 Year Bk. 1968 194/1 The epidemic that made Great Britain temporarily the plague-spot of the world began on October 25, 1967. 1991 R. Howard tr. E. M. Cioran Anathemas & Admirations i. 9 He lived in a virtually empty apartment his concierge wanted for her daughter and schemed to evict him from, on the pretext that the place was a plague-spot. Derivatives ˈplague-spotted adj. tainted as if covered with plague spots. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iv. i. 94 Her spirit shall approach the Throne of God Plague-spotted with my curses. 1897 E. L. Voynich Gadfly iii. viii. 366 What is the worth of your plague-spotted souls, that such a price should be paid for them? 1907 Evening Telegram (Ohio) 24 June 7/2 He considered Castle Sullivan one of the angriest plague spots in a plague spotted land. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1620
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